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Kristin Butler

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Intel CEO Brian Kraznich stepped down from President Trump's manufacturing council on Monday in objection to Trump's response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. The following day, the firm released its mid-year diversity report, showing Intel has improved its representation of women and Native Americans in workforce...

It took years of self-study and reconnecting to his ancestral knowledge for Karlos Baca (Diné/Tewa/Nuche) to shed the colonial mind frame that’s so deeply embedded in modern culinary styles. “I had this colonial imprint of how things are supposed to be done in regards to cooking and product methodology,...

Well-established U.S. tribal casino brands are spending several billion dollars, or are prepared to invest billions, to build multi-faceted casino resorts in overseas markets. As Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment prepares to break ground in South Korea, Hard Rock International sets its sights on a beachfront resort community on central...

Throughout his first cookbook, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, Sean Sherman educates. Sherman founded The Sioux Chef in 2014, “a pure leap of faith,” he writes. The mission-driven enterprise consists of indigenous team members, who together run a full-service catering company, and soon, a restaurant in Minneapolis: The Chef:...

Home to nine tribes, Oregon once served as the territory of 50 tribal nations. Today, their descendants carry on unique, indigenous traditions at Indian reservations, cultural centers, and in urban locales statewide.
While Portland is a considerable distance from most of Oregon’s nine reservations, the city in the state’s corner...

Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota founder of The Sioux Chef, describes the exclusively indigenous food at his upcoming Minneapolis restaurant as “straightforward, boldly seasoned, and unpretentious”— like the recipes in his soon-to-be-released cookbook. At its most tangible level, his restaurant, The Sioux Chef: An Indigenous Kitchen, will answer: are...

“Today, so many people all over the world really are searching for some kind of a connection to Mother Earth. Many, many people have heard of pipestone pipes. But they have no idea where they come from, or what they do,” said Ojibwe pipemaker Bud Johnston.
Fifty-three pipestone pits, stretching...